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Chapter 49 Negotiations (4) Yamashita

It is not a very difficult task to get the group of experts in the research of Asia-Pacific issues of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs to produce a testimony that conforms to the Japanese thinking logic and language habits. There are many Japanese communications in Germany that have worked with Japan for many years.

What's more, those confessors cooperated vigorously with a flattering attitude under the threat of the Nine-tailed Cat and Luge's pistol. They not only pointed out the tiny loopholes in the forged confession, but also added a lot of material on their own, increasing the credibility of the report, and allowing this confession to reach the highest level of seamlessness.

These Japanese also knew that they would never set foot on the land of Japan. Even if the Germans were kind enough to let them go, what was waiting for them after returning to Japan was definitely not the welcome bouquets and cheers. What was more likely to be the cold guns of the military police and the roar of the "heavenly punished" of their former companions in their organization.

Since they have betrayed, they can do it more thoroughly. These people not only think this way but also do it.

These Japanese ruffians have long been completely destroyed by German torture experts. Compared with the honor of the Yamato nation and the soldering iron, the latter can make them unforgettable.

It’s not their fault. Apart from the two or three leaders, none of the remaining minions were from regular soldiers, and of course they had not received that kind of strict brainwashing education.

The most fierce guy among them is just a ronin, and things like Bushido have nothing to do with them.

Before joining their respective organizations, they were either idle and idle men on the street, or gangsters who were brave and fierce in causing trouble, and even set up stalls in Song and Dance Town to work as hawkers.

There are also many reasons for joining those organizations. Some were inexplicably brought into the industry by their elder brother, some who thought it seemed very majestic and joined, and some who were purely for the sake of supporting their families.

However, one thing is common. These people are a bit clever and have a little bit of language talent, otherwise they would not have been sent to France to build an intelligence station.

They have all received some professional training and have been full of passion, but under the flexible Nine-tailed Cat, all the training and passion are gone into ashes while the whip shadows fly.

If they have fully mastered the experience of social survival, they will not have the nature of warriors, let alone the enlightenment of dedicating themselves to the emperor. Between survival and loyalty, all of them chose the former at the first time.

No one wanted to be sent to the small crematorium in the basement of the prison hospital by the Germans, which greatly disappointed the German executioners.

The rebellions of these Japanese minions were expected by German intelligence experts, but the leader and an officer also chose to rebellion, which surprised the German experts.

This person is not a gangster. He is a regular officer who graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School. He served as the second lieutenant of the imperial army who was the chief of the subordinate secret service agencies of the Kanto Army and the North China Expeditionary Army. He is the most fanatical Japanese samurai.

Judging from his resume, he should be the least likely person among this group of prisoners to betray Japan.

But this is Fujito Shigeru, who was the first Japanese prisoner to confess after he began his execution.

The German executioner has just opened his muscles and bones, and the guy has already confessed like a bamboo tube pouring beans.

However, since this guy was the culprit of the assassination of the head of state, no intelligence officials were present at the time, and the Germans were all on the fire, no one noticed this detail.

The Germans ignored his attitude of admitting guilt, and he slapped him in various ways until he was beaten to death several times before dragging him away.

So, when the German had just asked him to revise his confession this time, before the executioner could whip and intimidate him, the guy began to cry and agree to cooperate with Germany.

Not only that, he also firmly stated that if Germany needs it, he can even serve Germany without any conditions.

This time, the eyes of the German intelligence officer in charge of the matter began to shine.

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Yamashita Tomoto, who was transferred to the German Army Hospital, was beaten very badly, not because he was a Japanese general, but because this "famous general" was so hard-mouthed.

At this time, Fengwen of the Yamashita was not as famous as Xu Jun in the world, and he was robbing precious metals everywhere with the head of the "Malay Tiger".

Yamashita Fengwen is also a professional graduate. He graduated from the second place in the 28th class of Lu University and is a member of the saber team with a promising future. As long as he stands in the right team and is not too stupid, he will definitely make a name for himself in the army.

After graduation, he was sent to study in Germany, worked as a military researcher in Switzerland, and studied the European military system. After returning to China, he spent a while in charge of the General Staff Headquarters, and then returned to the Army University as an instructor. He was then sent as a military officer at the Japanese Embassy in Austria, which was a bright career.

After returning from Austria, he served as the commander of the Third Army Regiment and became a nickname for "infantry cannon".

This guy is 1.74 meters tall, tall among the Japanese, but he is as heavy as an eleventh-style 37mm flat-fired infantry cannon, which is 180 kilograms. He may have been the fattest corps leader in the entire Japanese army at that time.

Although he was just a small wing captain, the third wing was considered the main force, and Yamashita Tomoto officially became a member of the powerful officer.

Yamashita Fengwen's background is not noble, she belongs to an ordinary family and has no background in warriors, so she may suffer a little in her career.

However, his wife came from a famous family and was the eldest daughter of Major General Yongyou Yuanyan. By following his wife's route, he finally got on the line of the upper class of the army and met a group of high-ranking nobles.

With the support of senior friends introduced by his father-in-law, Yamashita Tomoto climbed into the ranks of generals at the age of 49 and even became the important Minister of the Army Investigation Department. It can be regarded as a successful career.

But what he didn't expect was that because of this group of friends, he unfortunately made a mistake that could make him doomed, and he stood in the wrong team.

At that time, the Japanese army was divided into two factions. One was a "imperial faction" who believed in national sectism, followed the emperor's main body, intended to violently reform the national affairs, eliminate the "flattery ministers" around the emperor, and returned all power to the emperor. The other faction was a "controller faction" who was determined to regard the emperor as a mascot, and put military headquarters first and paid attention to the stable reform from top to bottom.

The Imperial Doctrine Sect is mostly young and strong officers of the lower-level field troops who are full of Bushido spirit and loyalty to the emperor, while the Control Sect is mostly high-powered senior generals. Apart from establishing a militarist country, the two have no common language at all.

The conflicts between the two sides became heavier and heavier until they could not be reconciled, which led to the famous "226" coup in Japanese history.

On February 26, 1936, young and strong officers from the "Imperial Dao Sect" led 1,500 soldiers from the First Division to launch a mutiny.

They attacked the residences of all cabinet members and killed a group of senior officials, including the Army Director of Education.

The mutiny occupied the residences of the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Army and demanded the removal of members of the "controlled faction" within the cabinet and the military headquarters. They even proposed a list of successors, including Major General Tomoto Yamashita's daimyo.

Since most of the friends who promoted Fengwen of Yamashita were the backbone of the "Imperial Taoist Sect", Yamashita himself was more inclined to the idea of ​​"Imperial Taoist Sect", he was unscrupulously classified as members of the "Imperial Taoist Sect".

The regular army troops launched a mutiny, which alarmed Hirohito at that time. After watching coldly for a few days, Hirohito finally couldn't bear it anymore. He characterized the mutiny troops as "rebels" and said that if the military headquarters continued to argue there and did not solve the problem, he would personally lead the guard to "put the rebellion". The government and the country were in an uproar, and Hirohito's little body went to "put the rebellion". If he didn't cause trouble, it would be considered that Amaterasu would open his eyes.

However, as soon as the Emperor spoke, the military headquarters finally had a backbone. With the support of the Emperor, it was easy to solve the problem. The "ruling faction" immediately straightened its back and pacified the mutiny with a destructive and destructive force. Not only that, they also took this opportunity to carry out a large-scale purge of the "Imperial Tath" officers within the army. Yamashita Fengmoto was also pulled down and expelled from the center of power. He was sent to North Korea to serve as the brigade commander of the 44th Brigade of the North Korean garrison Army.

This is because Shizuichi Tetsuichi, who was the prime minister at the time, would have helped him, otherwise he would have been kicked into the reserve service. Interestingly, Shizuichi Tetsuichi was also introduced to him by his father-in-law at the foot of the mountain. It can be said that success or failure is Xiao He.

In North Korea, I developed a hobby of collecting precious metals at the foot of the mountain, and I did a lot of killing people and catching treasures, which was not much different from a bandit. I rushed to the "July 7 Incident" and immediately pulled the team at the foot of the mountain, who was loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, and robbed China.

Yamashita Tomoto participated in many battles in North China, China, and was promoted from the brigade commander to the position of Chief of Staff of the North China Front Army.

On the Chinese battlefield, Yamashita Fengfu committed a series of war crimes and owed countless blood debts to the Chinese people.

In 1939, the "Nomenkan Incident" broke out and the Japanese army was brutally ravaged. In order to appease Russia and to save face, a group of senior Kwantung Army officials were successively dismissed from this matter.

Yamashita Fengfu was dispatched to the Kwantung Army as the commander of the 4th Division, which was then affiliated with the Kwantung Army, and finally got the chance to make a comeback.

(The Osaka Fourth Division is an interesting division, but the real Fourth Corps is not as ridiculous as rumored on the Internet. We will see this unit later in this book.)

After being the commander of the permanent division for a period of time, Yamashita was finally transferred back to the country and returned to the center of power, serving as the director of Japan Aviation and the director of the Aviation Headquarters. Because he had studied in Germany, he was familiar with Germany, had a long enough qualifications, and had a good official title, and had a corresponding position, so he was appointed by the military department as the deputy commander of the German Military Observation Group and led the Army Observation Group to the European battlefield to observe and study, especially the tactics and techniques of the German Air Force and the armored forces.

After receiving this mission, Yamashita Fengfu was full of confidence. He was planning to show off his skills and perform well in this inspection. Maybe he could continue to work hard at his current position to a higher level.

So when the observation team arrived in Paris, he immediately contacted the secret intelligence station of the Army General Staff in Paris, hoping to obtain first-hand information about the German army on the French battlefield.

Not to mention, Fujitoshiro did have some tricks in intelligence collection. He got some French combat records and some German battlefield manuals, including a lot of information that was helpful for analyzing German tactics.

Yamashita Tomoto praised Fujitoshiro for this and promised a bunch of empty checks for promotion and wealth.

With a mentality of reciprocating love, the flattered Shigeru Fujito tried hard to praise Yamashita Tomoto, and said that he would hold a Japanese-style luxury banquet at the intelligence station to welcome Lieutenant General Yamashita.

In order to arouse the general's interest, Fujito Shige also boasted about how fresh French seafood he had, how many varieties, how high-end materials, how superb his chef's skills were, how fresh and sweet the sashimi and sushi he made, which made Yamashita Bongfun, who had eaten bread and sausage for several weeks along the way, suddenly felt his index finger and saliva on the spot.

It is better to have fun alone than to have fun. Fengwen from the Yamashita is not the one who eats alone. He dare not forget to save his benefactor and old general of the military career. After Fengwen from the Yamashita's passionate introduction, the latter of course decisively and happily agreed.

So the next day, two Japanese leaders invading China, the future "military god" and "famous generals", happily walked into the strange-style Japanese restaurant.

It was a bad luck for these two butchers with hands covered in blood from the people. Originally, they just wanted to taste some fresh Japanese sashimi, but now they were beaten like two piles of oysters by the strong Germans. Whether they could live to see Mount Fuji alive is between the two.
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